Install Bacula On Centos 5 5x5

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Hi all,
Just thought I would share in my experience.
As a newb to linux it took me longer than I expected to get [b]Bacula[/b] working on [b]Centos 5[/b], I found no clear, complete and easy documentation on how to install it the manual way or even the yum way. :-)
So I decide to put this down incase someone else is struggling. Please excuse all mistakes that might pop up I usually don\'t post on forums like this. This is by no means a complete HOWto, if you find mistakes please post away and i \'might\' try and update this post if that is possible on this forum.
Turns out to be one of the easiest installs I\'ve ever done, I just maybe got a little side tracked with the official bacula documentation (Perl configs and the like).
The route I took was the following.
[b]INSTALL[/b]
[b]1)[/b] Install CentOS (with mysql will save you a bit of bandwidth down the line) I kind of like my install to be minimal, so took me a bit longer than i expected. Optionally use [url=http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml]Securing linux[/url] to secure, one of many good sites to secure linux that i know of.
[b]2)[/b] Connect to the EPEL repository, read this link if you want more info [url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse]EPEL how to use[/url]
[b]3)[/b] The above step 2 should invite you to do the following \'[b]su -c \'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm\'[/b]\'
[b]4)[/b] Then I mounted the Centos 5 DVD and installed the following extra packages (using: rpm -ivh packagename, packagename etc etc). [b]mysql, mysql-devel, mysql-server, gcc-c++, perl-DBI, openssl-devel, perl-DBD-Mysql, glibc-devel, libgomp. libstdc++-devel, krb5-devel, zlib-devel, glibc-headers, e2fsprogs-devel[/b]. If all of these packages are infact required I am not sure. Its possible some of them are used only to build bacula from scratch, but I found that particular route very badly documented so I have use yum and rpm\'s. I found that mysql client conflicted with server, which is understandable so I left it out. If any of the above rpm\'s are already installed, you will be told, just remove them from the \'rpm -ivh statement\' and all should go well. If any other dependents pop up that i have not mentioned i would add them to the rpm statement if they are on the DVD, if not then try and \'yum install packagename\' them. if that doesn\'t work then wow, u have found something i didn\'t expect, i this case i would google them. you might find its available at some rpm site for centos/redhat5.
[b]5)[/b] gets nice and easy from here, \'[b]yum install php php-gettext php-pear[/b]\'
[b]6)[/b] \'[b]yum install qt4 qt4-devel qwt qwt-devel[/b]\'
[b]7)[/b] \'[b]yum install wxGTK[/b]\'
[b]8)[/b] \'[b]service mysqld start[/b]\' - required to get the next part working, if you don\'t remember to do this and jump to step 10 you will find that bacula cannot connect to the mysql database and hence not create the correct permission and password structure and probably table structure required for bacula to work. :lol: yes this did happen to me. To fix this uninstall step 10\'s rpm\'s and give it a second try after starting the mysql service.
[b]9)[/b] Next I downloaded the bacula EL5 rpm\'s from [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula]sourceforge el5 rpm\'s[/url] [b]only the rpm\'s with EL5[/b] in the file name. In this case I downloaded version *2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm, i think 2.2.8 is out and avaliable. I think you can find them by clicking \'download bacula\', then going to \'[b]rpms-contrib-fschwarz[/b]\' if your using firefox use the find feature and type in \'el5\' and click \'highlight all\'.
[b]10)[/b] Once downloaded \'[b]rpm -ivh bacula-bat-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm bacula-gconsole-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm bacula-mtx-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm bacula-mysql-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm bacula-wxconsole-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm[/b]\'. As you can see in this case I only installed [b]bacula-bat, bacula-gconsole, bacula-mtxm, bacula-mysql, bacula-wxconsole[/b]. For some reason i think the bacula-client conflicted with one of the above and the sqlite and postgresql rpm\'s are obviously not required as we chose mysql as our Database. I assume the bacula-client is just the file daemon require for other linux computers on the network you would like to backup.
[b]CONFIG[/b]
Ok here is where you get to config bacula and check how it works. I chose to install Webmin [url=http://www.webmin.com/]webmin site[/url]. Easiest RPM you will ever install I think. :-D rpm -ivh webmin*wateva etc. nice little explanation on there page how to install the rpm. 1 line long i think :) just how i like it.
[b]Webmin[/b] gives you a nice interface to start and stop the daemons, setup / attach clients, fileset, included folders and files, excluded files, add volumes, label volumes, RESTORE with gui, etc. Nothing of a super GUI but pretty decent for the basic stuff and a bit more, not to mention pretty much all other linux admin on a web interface. I found a bug with the webmin interface for adding filesets but then again its easy enough to edit the bacula-dir.conf file in /etc/bacula and i\'m sure you will get the idea eventually. Webmin requires you to change from the default db setting of postgresql to mysql this can be done by clicking on the \'Module Config\' on the bacula main page in webmin. Don\'t forget to secure webmin, by default the firewall shouldn\'t let you reach port 10000 from outside the box but i am no security expert so i leave that up to u. You will also need to change the bacula database password here eventually if u go ahead and change it later.
The other route is to forget webmin just start bacula by running \'[b]service bacula-dir start[/b]\', \'[b]service bacula-fd start[/b]\', and \'[b]service bacula-sd start[/b]\'. Personally I found that when editing the bacula config files in /etc/bacula it was wise to stop all the services. Especially when changing bacula\'s passwords. I had nightmare problems with changing passwords and daemon names before i learn\'t to stop the services.
I would consider reading some of the good security sites on bacula (google them).
I would advise you to change the root password of your mysql database if you have not already, change the bacula password of your mysql database, update this in the bacula-dir.conf file in two places,
([b]RunBeforeJob = \'/etc/.......... bacula bacula PASSWORD\'[/b]) and ([b]dbname = bacula; user = bacula; password = \'PASSWORD\'[/b]) Make the passwords STRONG, make the daemon passwords even STRONGER and Longer. The passwords they have used should give you a idea of length.
I read that only the file daemon on linux requires root access, so the storage and director can be changed to another user. I have not made time to investigate this yet.
I also changed all the passwords in all the *.conf files in /etc/bacula. I kept the client passwords to the director different from the daemon passwords on the linux server. I also changed the director, storage and file daemon names from el5_guild_bla_bla to our comapny-name-dir, company-name-mon, company-name-sd, etc. I did all of this while bacula\'s 3 services were stopped, if i didn\'t stop them they would complain about some authentication errors on next restart. My only way to fix this was move my copied/backed up original bacula *.conf files over the old ones and start again. I found alot of web pages about bacula authentication errors, but none of them seemed to have a concrete answer as to why it happens. So as i said stop the services to be safe.
Playing with the config files in vi or vim to me is the fastest way to add clients, fileset and jobs. This becomes easier once you get past the learning curve, which i found easy to do with a little reading and installing webmin to see the bigger picture of bacula. If you have never tried webmin i would strongly advise you to look into it. Then again most \'real\' linux users prefer to use little to NO gui\'s. VIM is all the gui you will ever need i get told :-) I found it easy to use webmin to get one client up and running then u examine the conf files with vi to see what is happening and well from there its VI all the way. bit of a cheat but i had to much to do this week and little time to hack around.
webmin seems to take care of a couple of problems what crop up after install. I can\'t remember all of them but i remember changing most lines in the config file that started with \'address =\' to \'address = hostname (name of server)\' in order to get things running.
I had to open ports, 9101, 9102, and 9103 on the firewall for clients i think.
I had to install the \'winbacula-2.2.7.exe\' client on all the windows boxes on the network. So far i am pretty impressed with how easy it was to get working, my only concern so far is the possible security issues that could arise from this. I will think on this some more before i call this a final setup. But suffice to say i made all the passwords strong and differnet, and the install became easy after client number 3 or 4, just make sure u choose custom if you are planing on changing the director name, and password.
I also installed samba on the server in order to add clients with there hostname and not use there static ip addresses. Samba again is very easy to config and webmin comes with a nice little interface for those who need it. not to mention for a simple workgroup i think it will improve the network performance and stability. If you want to change the settings on your windows box after you have installed bacula windows client, all you need to do is go to start, programs, then bacula something or other, should have links to the config files. if not search with windows for bacula, *.conf or something or other. don\'t forget to restart the bacula service on windows once you are done with changes, or just restart windows :(
I am not a linux user, i am just a average windows web / software developer that is motivated to get this working, so please don\'t expect me to no all the answers if you ask questions. I am sure there are many linux experts out there who can help, but if u happen to have a problem i know the answer to, i will add it.
[b]Sites that deserve credit in helping me problem solve are:[/b]
www.google.co.za - we love you google, even if you are taking over the world :)
http://bin-false.org/?p=15
http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=howto_compile_and_install_bacula_with_bat_on_fedora_7_or_centos_5&s=centos
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11588&forum=37&post_id=37648#forumpost37648
Bit of background:
We have a small windows / linux based network that we want to backup. We wanted to backup data, not full computers like some people online seem to like (I think that is crazy btw, so much wasted junk backed up. With windows all one needs to back up are folders like
c:Documents and Settingsusernamemy docs, favourties, desktop, pst mail files if present (I prefer to put them somewhere else on creation), opera/firefox bookmarks, and other relevent company data folders. With the exclusion of *.mp3 files, my music folders and my picture folders. If the client looses things not put in the mydocs folder, unlucky. Same goes for windows registry and all that sort of junk. I\'ve almost never heard of a case where the system state of a windows machine needs to be recovered. I am sure such a case exists but not for the average windows computer. reinstall it or image it and roll it on out. then toss all the data back as part of the recovery process, not to mention that most company data should be stored centrally IMHO and the waste space of backing up 30+ windows workstations with 80 -160 gig drives of junk. END ramble. :)
Anyway we wanted to back up the above folders, and tried AMANDA, saddly i could not get amanda and samba to work with multiple excluded directories and subfolders and files. nore could i get amanda to work friendly like with windows folders with spaces. I actually really liked amanda, probably because getting it up and running was fast, even for a simple first time backup and restore.
Oh well, i tried Bacula and BackupPC and so far i am very happy with bacula.
So thats is my story.
Hope this post helps someone.
Good luck and enjoy
Rory :-)Hey guys,
I\'m a total beginner when it comes to Linux and Bacula.
I\'ve almost got it up and running, I have the bacula-dir.conf,etc set up I can do things through webmin, Tray works. So i\'m getting there. The problem i\'m running into is that I can\'t get my Windows machine to connect with the director. I start a job manually through webmin and it sits for a few minutes then errors out and says \'No response from client\'(along those lines).
Here\'s my director config file.
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#
# Default Bacula Director Configuration file
#
# The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more
# file or directory names in the Include directive of the
# FileSet resource.
#
# For Bacula release 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) -- redhat (Final)
#
# You might also want to change the default email address
# from root to your address. See the \'mail\' and \'operator\'
# directives in the Messages resource.
#
Director { # define myself
Name = bacula-dir
DIRport = 9101 # where we listen for UA connections
QueryFile = \'/usr/libexec/bacula/query.sql\'
WorkingDirectory = \'/var/spool/bacula\'
PidDirectory = \'/var/run\'
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
Password = pw # Console password
Messages = Daemon
}
JobDefs {
Name = \'DefaultJob\'
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
Client = bacula-fd
FileSet = \'Full Set\'
Schedule = \'WeeklyCycle\'
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = File
Priority = 10
Write Bootstrap = \'/var/spool/bacula/%c.bsr\'
}
#
# Define the main nightly save backup job
# By default, this job will back up to disk in /tmp
#Job {
# Name = \'BackupClient2\'
# Client = bacula2-fd
# JobDefs = \'DefaultJob\'
#}
# Backup the catalog database (after the nightly save)
Job {
Name = \'BackupCatalog\'
JobDefs = \'DefaultJob\'
Level = Full
FileSet=\'Catalog\'
Schedule = \'WeeklyCycleAfterBackup\'
# This creates an ASCII copy of the catalog
# Arguments to make_catalog_backup.pl are:
# make_catalog_backup.pl <catalog-name>
RunBeforeJob = \'/usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog\'
# This deletes the copy of the catalog
RunAfterJob = \'/usr/libexec/bacula/delete_catalog_backup\'
Write Bootstrap = \'/var/spool/bacula/%n.bsr\'
Priority = 11 # run after main backup
}
#
# Standard Restore template, to be changed by Console program
# Only one such job is needed for all Jobs/Clients/Storage ..
#
Job {
Name = \'RestoreFiles\'
Type = Restore
Client=bacula-fd
FileSet=\'Full Set\'
Storage = File
Pool = Default
Messages = Standard
Where = /tmp/bacula-restores
}
# List of files to be backed up
FileSet {
Name = \'Full Set\'
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
#
# Put your list of files here, preceded by \'File =\', one per line
# or include an external list with:
#
# File = /
#
# Note: / backs up everything on the root partition.
# if you have other partitions such as /usr or /home
# you will probably want to add them too.
#
# By default this is defined to point to the Bacula binary
# directory to give a reasonable FileSet to backup to
# disk storage during initial testing.
#
File = /usr/sbin
}
#
# If you backup the root directory, the following two excluded
# files can be useful
#
Exclude {
File = /var/spool/bacula
File = /tmp
File = /proc
File = /tmp
File = /.journal
File = /.fsck
}
}
}
}
#
# When to do the backups, full backup on first sunday of the month,
# differential (i.e. incremental since full) every other sunday,
# and incremental backups other days
Schedule {
Name = \'WeeklyCycle\'
Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
}
# This schedule does the catalog. It starts after the WeeklyCycle
Schedule {
Name = \'WeeklyCycleAfterBackup\'
Run = Full sun-sat at 23:10
}
# This is the backup of the catalog
FileSet {
Name = \'Catalog\'
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = \'/var/spool/bacula/bacula.sql\'
}
}
# Client (File Services) to backup
Client {
Name = bacula-fd
Address = 192.168.1.169
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password =pw
File Retention = 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months
}
#
# Second Client (File Services) to backup
# You should change Name, Address, and Password before using
#
#Client {
# Name = robert-hp-fd
# Address = Robert-HP
# FDPort = 9102
# Catalog = MyCatalog
# Password = pw # password for FileDaemon 2
# File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
# Job Retention = 6 months # six months
# AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
#}
# Definition of file storage device
Storage {
Name = File
# Do not use \'localhost\' here
Address = 192.168.1.195
SDPort = 9103
Password = pw
Device = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
}
# Definition of DDS tape storage device
#Storage {
# Name = DDS-4
# Do not use \'localhost\' here
# Address = storage.example.com # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
# SDPort = 9103
# Password = iislinux # password for Storage daemon
# Device = DDS-4 # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
# Media Type = DDS-4 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
# Autochanger = yes # enable for autochanger device
#}
# Definition of 8mm tape storage device
#Storage {
# Name = \'8mmDrive\'
# Do not use \'localhost\' here
# Address = storage.example.com # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
# SDPort = 9103
# Password = pw
# Device = \'Exabyte 8mm\'
# MediaType = \'8mm\'
#}
# Definition of DVD storage device
#Storage {
# Name = \'DVD\'
# Do not use \'localhost\' here
# Address = storage.example.com # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
# SDPort = 9103
# Password = iislinux
# Device = \'DVD Writer\'
# MediaType = \'DVD\'
#}
# Generic catalog service
Catalog {
Name = MyCatalog
# Uncomment the following line if you want the dbi driver
# dbdriver = \'dbi:mysql\'; dbaddress = 127.0.0.1; dbport =
dbname = \'bacula\'; dbuser = \'bacula\'; dbpassword = iislinux
}
# Reasonable message delivery -- send most everything to email address
# and to the console
Messages {
Name = Standard
#
# NOTE! If you send to two email or more email addresses, you will need
# to replace the %r in the from field (-f part) with a single valid
# email address in both the mailcommand and the operatorcommand.
# What this does is, it sets the email address that emails would display
# in the FROM field, which is by default the same email as they\'re being
# sent to. However, if you send email to more than one address, then
# you\'ll have to set the FROM address manually, to a single address.
# for example, a \'no-reply@mydomain.com\', is better since that tends to
# tell (most) people that its coming from an automated source.
#
mailcommand = \'/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \'(Bacula) <%r>\' -s \'Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\' %r\'
operatorcommand = \'/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \'(Bacula) <%r>\' -s \'Bacula: Intervention needed for %j\' %r\'
mail = root@localhost = all, !skipped
operator = root@localhost = mount
console = all, !skipped, !saved
#
# WARNING! the following will create a file that you must cycle from
# time to time as it will grow indefinitely. However, it will
# also keep all your messages if they scroll off the console.
#
append = \'/var/spool/bacula/log\' = all, !skipped
catalog = all
}
#
# Message delivery for daemon messages (no job).
Messages {
Name = Daemon
mailcommand = \'/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \'(Bacula) <%r>\' -s \'Bacula daemon message\' %r\'
mail = root@localhost = all, !skipped
console = all, !skipped, !saved
append = \'/var/log/bacula.log\' = all, !skipped
}
# Default pool definition
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
}
# File Pool definition
Pool {
Name = File
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G # Limit Volume size to something reasonable
Maximum Volumes = 10000 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
}
# Scratch pool definition
Pool {
Name = Scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}
#
# Restricted console used by tray-monitor to get the status of the director
#
Console {
Name = bacula-mon
Password = pw
CommandACL = status, .status
}
Client {
Name = bacula2-fd
Password = pw
Address = 192.168.1.100
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
File Retention = 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months
}
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And here\'s my client config file..(From windows)
[code]
#
# Default Bacula File Daemon Configuration file
#
# For Bacula release 5.2.10 (06/28/12) -- Windows MinGW64
#
# There is not much to change here except perhaps the
# File daemon Name
#
#
# \'Global\' File daemon configuration specifications
#
FileDaemon { # this is me
Name = robert-hp-fd
FDport = 9102 # where we listen for the director
WorkingDirectory = \'C:Program FilesBaculaworking\'
Pid Directory = \'C:Program FilesBaculaworking\'
# Plugin Directory = \'C:Program FilesBaculaplugins\'
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
}
#
# List Directors who are permitted to contact this File daemon
#
Director {
Name = bacula-dir
Password = pw
}
#
# Restricted Director, used by tray-monitor to get the
# status of the file daemon
#
#Director {
# Name = @monitor_name@
# Password = \'@monitor_password@\'
# Monitor = yes
#}
# Send all messages except skipped files back to Director
Messages {
Name = Standard
director = bacula-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
}
}
[/code]
I also had my name as \'bacula2-fd\' in that file but that didn\'t work either. And on the site I read on how to install Windows Bacula it said that the whole monitor section needed to be commented out, that\'s why that is the way it is.
Another problem--which may not be for here is about the Windows piece-- When ever I try to start bconsole a Command prompt window opens and immediately closes a split second later. I can\'t even read what\'s on the screen. This is a CentOS forum so that may be for another place but just in case here\'s my bconsole.conf file from my windows machine.
[code]
#
# Bacula User Agent (or Console) Configuration File
#
Director {
Name = bacula-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = 192.168.1.195
Password = pw
}
[/code]
My password is not I replaced the actual password with that, I am 100% sure they all match but my question is--the quotes. Do those matter when entering the password? From all the documentation I can\'t tell if its put there because password is just an example, I also see documentation without quotes. In my config files I had mixed, some with quotes, some without (note-the quotes you see above are accurate as well as lack of quotes) and I got a password error. I then changed everything on the server side to no quotes and that went away. I just want to confirm if they matter or not, should the all have quotes? Should they all not have quotes? Does it not matter as long as it\'s consistent?
Sorry if these are dumb question, any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
Thanks :-D ,
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